Replying to LO29905 --
Dear Organlearners,
Don Dwiggins <d.l.dwiggins@computer.org> writes:
>Also, there's a kind of joy that doesn't involve laughter, or
>even smiling. Read the second paragraph of the Team Learning
>chapter of Fifth Discipline, where Bill Russell talks about the
>"magical" quality of certain games he participated in. To me,
>that's a good description of what I sometimes call "fierce joy".
>It can be individual as well -- think of an olympic athlete in
>pursuit of a personal best (or an architect or engineer in pursuit
>of the "quality without a name").
Greetings dear Dwig,
Now you have shone the light on something which i felt was absent from
this thread. Your "fierce joy" might perhaps be described as the joy when
commitment and perseverance results in victory. What about "ecstasy" to
describe it?
Joy, happiness and ecstasy upon some common accomplishment are not the
only emotions which can transcend from the individual to the entire LO.
What about the sorrow felt in the loss of somebody else as if one's own
loss? What about the sacred fury felt when ignorance becomes king one-eye
in the land of the blind? Should we not think about emotional indexes?
Nevertheless, joy, or perhaps it should be called rapture, is the emotion
which we remember the longest. Long after we have forgotten our sorrows
and furies, we still delight in our past joys. Thus i am quite content
with keeping to the joy index.
>And then there's the joy of interacting with you good
>folks on this list...
You can write that again and again!
With care and best wishes,
--At de Lange <amdelange@postino.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
Learning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <Richard@Karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>
"Learning-org" and the format of our message identifiers (LO1234, etc.) are trademarks of Richard Karash.